What a brilliant tool Evernote is! I really appreciate all the different ways and methods I could employ to craft an organizational scheme for my notebooks and the content within them. I find that the technique that works best with my mind is based on creating multiple notebooks for different types of material and sorting that material by date in the “snippet view”. I really love the idea of systematized tags, but I think my brains turns to mush more when I try to organize using tags. Instead, to find long-buried notes, I use the search tool for a word or concept I know was mentioned, and narrow down by the displayed date. This might become too cumbersome in the future, but so far it is working.
The notebooks I have currently are titled “EDC 430” and “Student Teaching”. I use EDC 430 for any and all assignments or notes I find important to jot down during class. I would like to create a new notebook for articles, clippings, and generally inspiring content to act as a sort of “pinboard” (like Pinterest). In in Student Teaching notebook, I keep notes, ideas, and reminders for things regarding student teaching. I mostly used that for my high school placement as my high school CT is far more tech-involved than my other CT. Though I will probably create two new notebooks for the Spring semester- one for my high school and one for my middle school. I like to do my planning on my laptop and it will be nice to have two dedicated notebooks for that.
The extent of your current PKB:
The extent of my notebook rests primarily in matters of education, that is, material regarding EDC 430 and student teaching. The content that can be found looks a lot like personal notes, reminders, brainstorming for lesson plans, notes on the readings, and interesting articles and resources. I haven’t used Evernote in a non school related way, though as a professional photographer, some of my colleagues use Evernote for business organizing and workflow. Currently I have around 40 notes in my notebooks.
Questions or difficulties that you still have trying to use Evernote professionally:
Professionally, I think I’m trying to learn how to integrate the material I collect into my everyday life. I don’t want my PKB to become a sort of etherial collection of interesting stuff- yet the interface of Evernote, while aesthetically and organizationally appealing, does not harken me to go to it immediately. That might be with any software, though. I’m very much experiencing the growing pains of being a millenial who loves a good old fashioned binder or notebook, but is very much encouraged (and often required) to function more digitally.
How you believe that your PKB contributes to your professional learning
Evernote acts kind of like a journal in a very holistic way. Though I may only clip articles or write brief brainstorms or drafts, it is intriguing to see how my mindframe shifts from week to week or month to month by looking at the types of articles I was interested in and the types of ideas I was brainstorming about.
“Reflection” is one of the words I think of first when I think of being a teacher. When my older brother went through URI’s School of Education, he frequently stressed the importance of being reflective… As have all the other education professions I have encountered. Evernote, in that way, acts as a long term platform for my PKB, indicating where I am currently as a soon-to-be teacher and where I will end up should I continue to compile my PKB via Evernote.
What a brilliant tool Evernote is! I really appreciate all the different ways and methods I could employ to craft an organizational scheme for my notebooks and the content within them. I find that the technique that works best with my mind is based on creating multiple notebooks for different types of material and sorting that material by date in the “snippet view”. I really love the idea of systematized tags, but I think my brains turns to mush more when I try to organize using tags. Instead, to find long-buried notes, I use the search tool for a word or concept I know was mentioned, and narrow down by the displayed date. This might become too cumbersome in the future, but so far it is working.
The notebooks I have currently are titled “EDC 430” and “Student Teaching”. I use EDC 430 for any and all assignments or notes I find important to jot down during class. I would like to create a new notebook for articles, clippings, and generally inspiring content to act as a sort of “pinboard” (like Pinterest). In in Student Teaching notebook, I keep notes, ideas, and reminders for things regarding student teaching. I mostly used that for my high school placement as my high school CT is far more tech-involved than my other CT. Though I will probably create two new notebooks for the Spring semester- one for my high school and one for my middle school. I like to do my planning on my laptop and it will be nice to have two dedicated notebooks for that.
The extent of your current PKB:
The extent of my notebook rests primarily in matters of education, that is, material regarding EDC 430 and student teaching. The content that can be found looks a lot like personal notes, reminders, brainstorming for lesson plans, notes on the readings, and interesting articles and resources. I haven’t used Evernote in a non school related way, though as a professional photographer, some of my colleagues use Evernote for business organizing and workflow. Currently I have around 40 notes in my notebooks.
Questions or difficulties that you still have trying to use Evernote professionally:
Professionally, I think I’m trying to learn how to integrate the material I collect into my everyday life. I don’t want my PKB to become a sort of etherial collection of interesting stuff- yet the interface of Evernote, while aesthetically and organizationally appealing, does not harken me to go to it immediately. That might be with any software, though. I’m very much experiencing the growing pains of being a millenial who loves a good old fashioned binder or notebook, but is very much encouraged (and often required) to function more digitally.
How you believe that your PKB contributes to your professional learning
Evernote acts kind of like a journal in a very holistic way. Though I may only clip articles or write brief brainstorms or drafts, it is intriguing to see how my mindframe shifts from week to week or month to month by looking at the types of articles I was interested in and the types of ideas I was brainstorming about.
“Reflection” is one of the words I think of first when I think of being a teacher. When my older brother went through URI’s School of Education, he frequently stressed the importance of being reflective… As have all the other education professions I have encountered. Evernote, in that way, acts as a long term platform for my PKB, indicating where I am currently as a soon-to-be teacher and where I will end up should I continue to compile my PKB via Evernote.